Last year, a senior I looked up to attended the Yale Young Global Scholars program and shared her exciting experience and how much she enjoyed the program. She described YYGS as a learning experience where ideas flowed, friendships developed across borders, and learning extended far beyond the classroom. I decided to get into the program to enrich myself with global experience.
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Protest, Violence, and Visas: Drawing the Line – Aditya Shrivastava
Last month, I was visiting Columbia University, and I saw a big protest full of masked students, surrounded by heavy police presence, to oppose the Gaza war. It was a surreal experience to see students passionately protesting, but at the same time, some of them were supporting violence against a particular group of people.
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Lynnfield Weekly News (Sept 30, 2024): Nurturing adolescent well-being
The teenage years are like a rollercoaster ride for many of us. One moment, we are feeling euphoric, and the next moment, we are exhausted and depressed. Some of us are confused and scared due to the hormonal, physical, and emotional changes we are going through. There are also various pressures that we have to deal with, such as peer, academic, social, and family. Not all of us are mentally strong enough to withstand these pressures.
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Lynnfield Weekly News (Oct 22, 2024): Sanctuary cities: weighing the pros and cons – A Boston viewpoint
Boston, with its varied demographic and lengthy tradition of immigration policy debates, is no different from any other sanctuary city. Sanctuary cities, like Boston, frequently restrict the collaboration of local law enforcement with federal immigration authorities, providing legal protections for unauthorized immigrants. Opinions on these policies tend to be strongly divided, but in a city like Boston
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Peabody Weekly News (Nov 5, 2024): From crisis to care: Boston’s groundbreaking response to COVID & teen mental health
Boston really went through the wringer during COVID, but the city’s response shows how a crisis can spark some amazing changes. When COVID first hit, Boston was slammed – but its major hospitals like Mass General Hospital stepped up in a big way.
The city turned things around quickly with testing and virtual care. But behind the scenes, a quieter crisis was unfolding: teen mental health took a serious hit.
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MarbleHead Weekly News (Nov 13, 2024): Aditya Shrivastava: Homelessness crisis in Boston area
The homelessness crisis in Massachusetts is heartbreaking. It’s not just a statistic or an abstract problem—it’s impacting the lives of thousands upon thousands of real people across our state. Over 190,141 individuals are experiencing homelessness in Massachusetts. That’s an astounding, gut wrenching number. These are people who had jobs, families, and dreams, until circumstances beyond their control swept them into the streets or shelters.
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Diversity in Lynnfield – Halloween, Diwali and Hanukkah – By Aditya Shrivastava, Lynnfield Middle School
As we can see more and more new families move into Lynnfield, Lynnfield is getting more diverse everyday. As a kid whose parents are first generation immigrants from India, I have a front row seat in how it feels to live in two very different cultures. We celebrate Diwali, Hanukkah as well as Halloween in the same time of the year with equal fervor. As my father says, we are lucky to have lived in two ultimate democratic countries with the freedom of expression that every person deserves in the world.
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Plight of Refugee Children – By Aditya Shrivastava, Lynnfield
We all know about COVID-19 pandemic but there is one more pandemic spreading around the world which nobody is talking about. It’s a pandemic of refugee kids. Recent events/ wars and Syria, Afghanistan, Yeman have made things worse for refugees, especially child refugees.
